@CEMSOJ

Community Empowerment and Social Justice (CEMSOJ) Network

 Nepal
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Joined July 2015
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🚨 #Indigenous #Newa & other communities file complaint with @ADB_HQ over its financing for projects related to #BagmatiCorridor and other river corridors in #Kathmandu citing violations of rights to property and river encroachment. 🔗 cemsoj.net/2025/12/18/indige… #Nepal #ADBFails
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📢 Call for stronger safeguards at the World Bank Group 👉 The @IFC_org and @MIGA, arms of the @WorldBankGroup, are reviewing their Sustainability Framework. This is a critical opportunity to strengthen safeguards. Read website post and briefing here: cemsoj.net/2026/10/06/princi…
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🚨 AIPNEE joins 116 CSOs on the IFC & MIGA safeguards review. ⚖️ The framework hasn't been updated in nearly 15 years. We call for: ✅ No regression ✅ Stronger accountability ✅ Rights-based engagement with #IndigenousPeoples ✊🏽 👉 aipnee.org/resources/civil-s…
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🌏 Climate Proofing Nepal's Infrastructure: Post-August 2026 Flash Flood 🌱 As part of Kathmandu Climate Week 2026, @shakya_prbn, Founder/Director of @CEMSOJ is pleased to be part of this important panel discussion together with other experts and practitioners More info ⬇️:
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READ ‼️ 🗣️: Indigenous Newa communities in Khokana and Bungamati call for renewed action from UN experts over Fast Track Expressway and other projects affecting their rights Full information link 🖇️: cemsoj.net/2026/09/29/indige…
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🚨FUTURE SHOCKS🚨 The Bhote Kosi-Trisuli flood is a lesson for other riverside towns across Nepal 📌 "An important lesson from the 26 August disaster is to go back to the traditional wisdom of not living along floodplains." 👇More 🖇️: nepalitimes.com/future-shock…

FUTURE SHOCKS

The Bhote Kosi-Trisuli flood is a lesson for other riverside towns across Nepal

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🚨 Nepal tallies the cost of its disaster 👉 Nepal's energy and grid system alone suffered just under $1 billion in damage and losses. This figure includes damage to 13 hydropower projects and five solar plants. 👉More 🖇️: nepalitimes.com/nepal-tallie…

Nepal tallies the cost of its disaster

Estimates economic cost of recovery at $4.7 billion, most of it in destroyed hydropower projects

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AIPNEE@aipneeSep 18
Thank you to everyone who joined our co-organized session at the UN Responsible Business & #HumanRights Forum. Key takeaway from AIPNEE Convenor @shakya_prbn: A just energy transition must be Indigenous-led, FPIC, with community-led solutions and direct climate finance.
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🚨 Climate warming set off Nepal disaster: Report 📌 Scientists conclude global warming influenced catastrophic mountain collapse 👇 Read full article 🖇️: nepalitimes.com/climate-warm…

Climate warming set off Nepal disaster: Report

Scientists conclude global warming influenced catastrophic mountain collapse

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Hope you all can attend our #RBHRForum session tomorrow.
AIPNEE@aipneeSep 13
Who Holds The Power? Advancing a Rights-Based and #Community-led Just Transition Across Asia-Pacific 15 Sept, 9AM GMT+7, Room 3 Speakers: @shakya_prbn, AIPNEE Convenor Vaishnavi V, @4accountability Deden, Penabulu Mod by: Robeliza Halip. @RepInitiative 🔗rbhrforum.com
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🗣️ “Small and medium level projects… can be a more environmentally and socially viable option ‘rather than a cascade of large scale dams’.” - @shakya_prbn Founder/Director of @CEMSOJ 🖇️ Read full article 👇: scroll.in/article/1095454/fu… #Nepal #Hydropower #ClimateJustice

Flood risks to Nepal hydropower project were known – but banks ignored them

Over 70 Indian workers have been rescued from the Upper Trishuli-1 project. Many are still missing.

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@ajplusAug 27
Nepal produces less than 0.1% of the world’s carbon emissions. But it’s paying the price for unchecked global pollution.
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📢 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR INTERNSHIPS Community Empowerment and Social Justice Network (@CEMSOJ) is looking for Research and Communications Interns to join our team. 👉For more details, check below
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#OpenLetter: 38 organisations across the world stand in solidarity with Pranab Doley and #Indigenous defenders in Assam and call for Pranab’s immediate release, as well as action from companies & investors linked to the luxury resort project in #Kaziranga zerotoleranceinitiative.org/…
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Indigenous knowledge is a powerful force for protecting the planet 🌿 On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, meet five UN Champions of the Earth defending ecosystems, Indigenous lands and traditions—from the Amazon to the Klamath River. Watch here: unep.org/news-and-stories/st…

Meet five Indigenous advocates fighting to protect the planet – and their traditions

To mark World Indigenous Peoples Day, we look back at the life and work of five Indigenous environmental campaigners.

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💁‍♀️Join us today for the webinar: 🌿“From Commitments to Action: The Role of Environmental Human Rights Defenders and Other Stakeholders in Advancing Human Rights-Based Biodiversity Governance in Asia.” 🔗Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/e…
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✊✊ "खोकना बासीलाई सेनाले बन्दुक ताकेर बाटो लान सकेन हामी सबै मिलेर टोखाको पहिचान बचाउन पर्छ" - सामाखुसी-टोखा-झोर गैर-न्यायिक सडक बिस्तार पिडित पूरा हेर्नुहोस् 📽️: facebook.com/reel/1060369549…

11K views · 92 reactions | Balkumari Khabar on Reels

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👉 Chobhar proposed as starting point of Kathmandu-Tarai Fast Track NO #FastTrack in #Khokana and #Bungamati...#SaveKhona #SaveBunga More 🖇️: myrepublica.nagariknetwork.c…

Chobhar proposed as starting point of Kathmandu-Tarai Fast Track

Chobhar proposed as starting point of Kathmandu-Tarai Fast Track

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🗣️ Nepal's New Government’s Fast Track Project Priority Sparks Conflict Over Indigenous Newar Lands in Khokana More 🔗: culturalsurvival.org/news/ne…

Nepal's New Government’s Fast Track Project Priority Sparks Conflict Over Indigenous Newar Lands in...

By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)

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📢 Govt to bypass Khokana deadlock to push ahead with Kathmandu-Tarai Expressway NO #FastTrack in #Khokana and #Bungamati...#SaveKhona #SaveBunga Full news: kathmandupost.com/national/2…

Govt to bypass Khokana deadlock to push ahead with Kathmandu-Tarai Expressway

Officials split the disputed 6.5km stretch into separate contract packages and revise the project design to construct two bridges between Farsidol and Dukuchhap.

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✊ भलमन्सालाई संरक्षण गर्दै धनगढी उपमहानगरपालिका पूरा समाचार 👇: ratopati.com/story/572343/dh…

भलमन्सालाई संरक्षण गर्दै धनगढी उपमहानगरपालिका

कैलाली । धनगढी उपमहानगरपालिकाले ‘थारू समुदायको भलमन्सा प्रथा संरक्षण तथा विकास सम्बन्धमा व्यवस्था गर्न बनेको विधेयक, २०८३’ तथा ‘रानाथारू समुदायको

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